Talk:McMurdo Sound

Type of ice in McMurdo Sound
Factual issue: The austral summer causes the pack ice to break up. is misleading. McMurdo Sound freezes shut in winter and the ice stays in place until break-up. I believe this type of ice is called fast ice. Maybe worth a change in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.67.56.180 (talk) 19:49, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Map
Pity the map does not show 'McMurdo Sound'.
 * It does now, but it does not locate the Sound within Antarctica generally. -- Beland (talk) 12:43, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

I agree that a continental map in addition to the map shown is called for. Someone trying to find out where McMurdo Sound is might not know where the Ross Sea is. Ealtram (talk) 17:43, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Let's build this article
McMurdo Sound is one of Antarctica's most _a_ strategic body ies of water as measured by its importance to surface vessels and aircraft re-supplying the continents largest base at McMurdo Station. In addition the sound played a key role during the heroic age of discovery for explorers such as Shackleton and Scott.

We sorely need need to build this article with photos and text: Fishdecoy 17:52, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * high quality photos of the sound and related text regarding scientific operations
 * a good map of the sound to replace the current continental map.
 * transportation: how do people get around? helios, snow vehicles, etc.
 * status of tourism
 * sea life
 * human footprint
 * other
 * Good progress to date with sea life and the B-15 iceberg. Still looking for able-bodied editors to help expand this article. Any social scientists in the house? This article could benefit from the good work of good researchers willing to take on the topic of Social Conditions for those who live, work, and play on the sound's frozen ice. This includes Williams Field, fuel stations on the ice, scientific exploration, and more.


 * I am about to begin researching the topic Human Footprint, that is to say the environmental impact of residents, exploration, construction, and re-supply efforts during the last 50 years.Fishdecoy 04:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. Fishdecoy 22:58, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Working on tourism section. Tourism is surging but mostly in in the ice-free zones near the Antarctica Pennisula.Fishdecoy 20:32, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. Fishdecoy 01:46, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

I have been pondering what's missing in the McMurdo Sound article. Scientific Research? Such a broad topic. What about life at McMurdo Station, Scott Base, and Williams Field? Yet articles already exist on these topics. Should an article about McMurdo Sound end at the shoreline or should our writing expedition explore mountain ranges and dry valleys? My gut feeling is to stick to the water and ice. Ok. What's unique about McMurdo Sound? Well, the named glaciers and glacier tongues that feed it are. That's where I am going to explore for the next topic. Anyone care to join the expedition? Fishdecoy 13:01, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The work-around solution I came up with is to insert a Prominent Features section which covers a lot of real estate in a short amount of space. I am now going to work on figuring out how to add Notes to the article. After that, I am calling it a wrap. Fishdecoy 14:58, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Now it dawns on me. Climate! That's what is missing in the current article -- there's nothing about the howling winds blasting down from the polar plateau and clearing the pack ice from McMurdo Sound within a matter of hours -- the same pack ice that takes an icebreaker days if not weeks to bust through. Nor does the article portray the contrast between startling clear and seemingly perpetual sunny polar days followed by winter's deep dark. And temps: surprising warm in the summer and beyond cold in the winter. So too is there a vacancy of tall tales about the rare occurence of exploding icebergs -- something witnessed but probably lacking in any published source.

Meanwhile, fellow editors, what do you think of adding a climate section? Anyone willing to research and write the topic for the article? Fishdecoy 03:12, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * "The Ice Bomb Goes Off A grounded tabular iceberg served as a research site for an Antarctic expedition that began in New Zealand. Three divers explored a long, deep crevasse inside the berg and found that it had protected a wide variety of sea life. Only hours after the divers surfaced and the research ship moved away, the iceberg seemed to explode into large sections and smaller fragments. It was perhaps the first time humans had eye-witnessed a collapse of that magnitude." National Geographic Fishdecoy 18:15, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Climate section is done.Fishdecoy 22:18, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Apparently nonsensical dimensions
"The ice-clogged waters of Antarctica's McMurdo Sound extend about 55 km (35 mi) long and wide. The sound encompasses 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) of shoreline which opens to the Ross Sea to the north. "

This can't be right. An inlet of the sea which is about 55 km long and wide cannot have a shoreline 4000 kilometres long, even by some weird fractal measure.

Is it supposed to say, a shoreline 400 km long, which is plausible ? Or possibly, an area of 4000 square kilometres,  which is also plausible ? Eregli bob (talk) 07:03, 12 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't know, and no source was cited. I've removed it. The linear dimensions also seem to be open to dispute; Encyclopaedia Britannica says it is "92 miles (148 km) long and up to 46 miles (74 km) wide", for instance. --Avenue (talk) 22:48, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Sounds like a news article
The section titles sound like an opinion/news article:

Ice defines strategic role

Iceberg B-15A clogs McMurdo Sound

Winds have far reaching effects

Life below the ice

Seascape reveals human impact

Tourism surge yet to reach McMurdo

It also seems to flow like an opinion article: "Yet the very ships involved in supporting the export of McMurdo Station’s waste present pollution hazards themselves. A study by the Australian Institute...", etc. Will be tagging the article with an improper tone/style. LaPlancha (talk) 18:52, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

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